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ENCOUNTER and PERCEPTION
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A thankful address to the American people and personally to Herbert Hoover from the Soviet Government signed by Deputy Prime-Minister Leo Kamenev. The original is being kept at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa.. |
Such was the perception of the American relief in Germany. |
The President of the Medical University in Krasnodar – Professor Nicholas Melnikov-Razvedenkov – sent a thankful letter to the ARA praising it for the efforts to help the University and the hungry. It was prohibited officially to thank the ARA except from the official authorities. |
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An American aid through the eyes of the Russian children. |
Odessa, late fall 1922 ?. At the forefront are the ARA’s employees with bread just arrived from America for the hungry Russians. To the left, a ship with wheat is ready to leave Russia for Germany. America was rescuing the hungry Russian, and the Soviet Government exported bread abroad to get foreign currency to buy industrial equipments. |
The ARA district supervisor in Kazan John Boyed and his interpreter. Boyed was granted a personal honor from the Tatar leadership for his role in fighting the famine in that Moslem country. |
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The ARA relief worker Bill Kelly meets with leaders of Russian Moslems, Ufa, 1922. |
The Americans got a unique opportunity to look at the Koran of Osman, one of the ancient copies of the Moslems sacred book. Ufa, 1922. |
The Koran of Osman is shown to Americans. |
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